Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 892e2abc613cd69d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-04 12:46:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-08-20
MD5: 4d95138152e135cc05f0c112b3ec0f8e SHA-1: 36c43d2a9af8106d7a3a7ccf57d23f0759ab4cf4 SHA-256: 892e2abc613cd69d46a4dd9a9d76aaabf1fcc6b942da1602d3e3b5f702b5fa56
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

This PDF was flagged by ClamAV as Pdf.Phishing.Trojan and by an ML classifier, indicating malicious intent. It contains a link farm pointing to multiple compromised WordPress upload directories and other disposable hosting, suggesting it's used to redirect users to malicious sites. The presence of external URIs and a link farm heuristic strongly indicates a phishing or malware distribution lure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9970

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://erex.hu/upload/file/29321333408.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cashmeredreams.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f13103667f309d4170c078b94f514806/56531261537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.ideaklinik.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16073e673861bb---15824727086.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.alwaysflorida.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ce8542507c8---xobobavonawopirobid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://goodluckfishing.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/57309017573.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ohstigers66.com/clients/d/da/da15611725e7ba20b6827cbf2e24f87d/File/24457518084.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://modelkyujin.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160ac405a2cf13---zewonarutuxidedi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.lightingandhvacexpo.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b1df3f02d6c18d90980444297dadde0b/19933833760.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://kaufdeinauto.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d3e86507f33---paxaxodazamufuxugiludo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dagvandearchitectuur.be/_files/file/giwosolurakutaxedin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://amd-export.com/site/upload/file/keragefepajekuriwosun.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iamluno.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa3f9dda699---2018108232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://villaturri.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075c0aaf19bc---88468923755.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.altrus.pl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609430a0a4693---pesipefetifozaliti.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.virtualaid.eu/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606ff46566f6d---tigusufekase.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.bouwenaaneensterkwerkgeversmerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b81c3005864---44075878990.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://brothers-music.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/41727824523.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vaytieudungtragop.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/m6a5t3ph6h7ml5lrn58dodkju1/pudiniwugibu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sharzh-ufa.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d1595b1ec3856f09ff5b69484b8e898b/soritazasoxodupiza.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hydrem.ru/images/file/51155365146.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ligonfamilyreunion.org/clients/9/9a/9a44987365eba454cd9b2deda39aa7c0/File/55217128011.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=spanish+for+havePDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f077.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF077 18672 bytes
SHA-256: 1a28b5370d913f0deb75723386cdfafaa1b7c4cc9e7dc9a48c73198ce74c983d
font_01_sfnt_off000120d5.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x120D5 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000138ec.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x138EC 10452 bytes
SHA-256: 77a179bbf266a93121b4b954a383b7e714767733a4aa052bc51b3a52a0bacafa